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by schneems 1716 days ago
At least a third of the company quit. That is not something that happens over something “deeply disingenuous”.

I’ve got a timeline put together on it https://schneems.com/2021/05/12/the-room-where-it-happens-ho... the post also goes into detail about Rails governance internals from my experiences as a contributor over the last decade.
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Jensson 1716 days ago
> At least a third of the company quit. That is not something that happens over something “deeply disingenuous”.

You leave out that basecamp gave 6 months of salary to each person quitting. I'd assume that most of those would have quit under those conditions even if there wasn't an incident at all. As we can see here at the Coinbase incident where they didn't give a ton of money basically nobody quit, basecamps case would probably look similar.

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schneems 1715 days ago
Your original characterization of the issue is dismissive and deeply disingenuous.
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civilized 1716 days ago
Half the country voted for Trump. A small percentage of those, but still millions of people, voted for him in part because they believed he was going to save them from a satanic ruling class of pedophiles.

"A lot of people did something" is not a solid reason to respect what they did or why they did it.

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